God Will Provide!
And Abraham called the name of the place,
The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day,
“In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
Genesis 22: 14
In the biblical world it was common for personal names
to reflect the character or attributes of the person. The
same was true of God’s name Jehovah as He
revealed
Himself to His people.
Compound names were ascribed to Him based on character
and attributes like Jehovah My Shepherd, Jehovah My Healer,
Jehovah My Victory, Jehovah My Righteousness. Jehovah My
Provision was a name given to God by Abraham as a result
of
God’s dramatic provision at a critical moment in Abraham’s life
(Genesis 22:1-19).
Because of an intense relationship God entered into with
Abraham, He tested him by commanding him to sacrifice
his son Isaac. When Abraham and Isaac approached
the
site of the sacrifice, Isaac asked his father where the
lamb for the sacrifice was.
Abraham told Isaac that God would provide which He did
at the last moment by providing a ram caught in a thicket.
So Abraham named the place
The-Lord-Will-Provide.
Philippians 4:19 says that God will provide
all our needs through Christ. If you have a
need today, trust that God will
provide.
"If God sends us on stony paths,
He will provide us with strong
shoes."
Alexander MacLaren
